Matthew S. Hallacy writes: > No, once a registrar pushes something into the 'root' zones, it stays > there until removed. It's not actually the root zone. The root zone is what the root name servers ([a-m].root-servers.net) serve. It only contains delegations and glue records for the top level domain (TLD) servers. Registrars update name servers records with a specific registry, who in turn updates the TLD zone. For example, the .com zone is served from [a-m].gtld-servers.net. (Note that this is glueless.) $ dnsq ns com d.root-servers.net 2 com: 453 bytes, 1+0+13+13 records, response, noerror query: 2 com authority: com 172800 NS a.gtld-servers.net authority: com 172800 NS g.gtld-servers.net authority: com 172800 NS h.gtld-servers.net ... $ dnsq ns google.com d.gtld-servers.net 2 google.com: 164 bytes, 1+4+0+4 records, response, noerror query: 2 google.com answer: google.com 172800 NS ns1.google.com answer: google.com 172800 NS ns2.google.com answer: google.com 172800 NS ns3.google.com answer: google.com 172800 NS ns4.google.com additional: ns1.google.com 172800 A 216.239.32.10 additional: ns2.google.com 172800 A 216.239.34.10 additional: ns3.google.com 172800 A 216.239.36.10 additional: ns4.google.com 172800 A 216.239.38.10 -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list